Include both modified and just created objects into invalidations
Starting from 1999 (b3805a2f "just getting started") only modified - not just created - objects were included into ZEO invalidation messages: https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZEO/commit/b3805a2f#diff-52fb76aaf08a1643cdb8fdaf69e37802R126-R127 In 2000 this behaviour was further changed to not send invalidation message at all if the only objects a transaction has were the created ones: https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZEO/commit/230ffbe8#diff-52fb76aaf08a1643cdb8fdaf69e37802L163-R163 In 2016 the latter was reconsidered as bug and fixed in ZEO5 because ZODB5 relies more heavily on MVCC semantic and needs to be notified about every transaction committed to storage to be able to properly update ZODB.Connection view: https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZEO/commit/02943acd#diff-52fb76aaf08a1643cdb8fdaf69e37802L889-R834 https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZEO/commit/9613f09b In 2020, with this patch, I'm proposing to reconsider initial "send only modified, not created objects" as bug, and include both modified and just created objects into invalidation messages at least for the following reasons: - a ZODB client (not necessarily native ZODB/py client) can maintain raw cache for the storage. If such client tries to load an oid at database view when that object did not existed yet, gets "no object" reply and stores that information into raw cache, to properly invalidate the cache it needs an invalidation message from ZODB server that _includes_ created object. - tools like `zodb watch` [1,2,3] don't work properly (give incorrect output) if not all objects modified/created by a transaction are included into invalidation messages. - similarly to `zodb watch`, a monitoring tool, that would want to be notified of all created/modified objects, won't see full database-change picture, and so won't work properly without knowing which objects were created. - wendelin.core 2 - which builds data from ZODB BTrees and data objects into virtual filesystem - needs to get invalidation messages with both modified and created objects to properly implement its own lazy invalidation and isolation protocol for file blocks in OS cache: when a block of file is accessed, all clients, that have this block mmaped, need to be notified and asked to remmap that block into particular revision of the file depending on a client's view of the filesystem and database [4,5]. To compute to where a client needs to remmap the block, WCFS server (that in turn acts as ZODB client wrt ZEO/NEO server), needs to be able to see whether client's view of the filesystem is before object creation (and then ask that client to pin that block to hole), or after creation (and then ask the client to pin that block to corresponding revision). This computation needs ZODB server to send invalidation messages in full: with both modified and just created objects. The patch is simple - it removes `if serial != b"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"` before queuing oid into ZEOStorage.invalidated, and adjusts the tests correspondingly. From my point of view and experience, in practice, this patch should not cause any compatibility break nor performance regressions. Thanks beforehand, Kirill /cc @jimfulton [1] https://lab.nexedi.com/kirr/neo/blob/ea53a795/go/zodb/zodbtools/watch.go [2] neo@e0d59f5d [3] neo@c41c2907 [4] https://lab.nexedi.com/kirr/wendelin.core/blob/1efb5876/wcfs/wcfs.go#L94-182 [5] https://lab.nexedi.com/kirr/wendelin.core/blob/1efb5876/wcfs/client/wcfs.h#L20-71
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